Homemade Bird Food Can Be Nutritious and Green London

Here's an easy homemade bird food recipe which is suitable for children to make with some supervision. Homemade bird food is easy to make if you use up some left-overs from your green kitchen and add a few choice elements to keep the birds well fed and happy.

Homemade Bird Food Can Be Nutritious and Green

Here's an easy homemade bird food recipe which is suitable for children to make with some supervision.

Homemade bird food is easy to make if you use up some left-overs from your green kitchen and add a few choice elements to keep the birds well fed and happy.

Feeding the birds is a good way of upping your green living, especially if you are using locally sourced, organic foods and scraps for the most part.

Commercial wild bird food can be expensive. Using some of your nutritious, organic food scraps can help make the bought bird feed go further.

You can collect your ingredients gradually, over a day or two. Just keep things secure in your fridge until you are ready, making sure that no-one mistakes them for family food of course! Collect suet and fat from your roasting pan or from frying or grilling meat. Collect bread crumbs, old crackers, left over cooked pasta or rice.

Don't keep anything which is rancid or at all mouldy.

Picture above: Seagulls will eat almost anything. This black-headed gull is about to attack last night's pasta bake.

Homemade bird food:

An easy bird cake recipe

Here is a recipe I was given recently. It's a bit similar to one we used when I was a child. It certainly keeps the backyard and garden birds coming back for more.

This recipe is suitable for a child to make.

Adult supervision should of course be given for the heating of the ingredients.

Homemade Bird Food: Recipe for Bird Cake

A selection of ingredients:

Half a cup of lard, suet or other hard fat. A combination of any of these left-over ingredients:-

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